[gst-devel] playbin and current-text

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 11/13/09 08:07, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 07:25 -0700, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> 
>> I am using a playbin (via the clutter-gst api) and when I set the
>> current-text it doesn't seem to take effect unless I stop the media and
>> restart it. I can turn off the subtitles by setting this to -1, but if I
>> set it to anything other than 0 (file has multiple subtitles) I still
>> get the subtitle from 0.
>>
>> I looked at the older totem code that uses a playbin and that is all it
>> seems to do.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> This is a known issue with the old playbin element. If I remember
> correctly, it will usually show the new subtitles after a flushing seek
> though. In totem this was ok when the user moved the seek slider, but it
> didn't work reliably when doing a flushing seek to the current position
> programmatically.
> 
> You could try the newer playbin2 element. I think the issue is fixed
> there (but if not, we'll fix it).
> 
> Cheers
>  -Tim

Tim,

Even with using playbin2, the subtitles don't seem to change unless I do
a seek in the media.

I'm using the mewmew-vorbis-ssa.mkv sample file for testing.

Kevin

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